[Peter Funk] > > Using a new keyword like 'div' in the tradition of languages like > > Modula-2 looks far more attractive to me. [Guido]: > That's a possibility too. It's a new keyword though, which has a much > higher threshold for acceptance than a new two-character operator > symbol. We could spell it as a built-in function: div(a, b), > (analogous to divmod(a, b)) but that's not very user-friendly either. > > Keep looking... FWIW, I remember as a newbie being sure that integer division was spelled "a div b". In fact when it didn't work, I went digging through PP, IPWP and the docs in dumbfounded disbelief. this-is-your-brain-on-Modula-2-ly y'rs - Gordon
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